Satirische allegorie rond het grafmonument van Johann Caspar Lavater, Balthasar Anton Dunker (possibly), 1801 - 1807

Title(s)

Satirische allegorie rond het grafmonument van Johann Caspar Lavater

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1908-2820

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Een skelet in uniform wijst naar de heilige Catharina, die huilend op een stapel werken van Lavater zit.

Artist

• printmaker: Balthasar Anton Dunker (possibly)

Dating

1801 - 1807

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 190 mm × width 155 mm

What

• grave, tomb and other grave-forms and grave-markers
• historical persons
• serpent Ouroboros
• garland, wreath
• devils in the form of (fabulous) animals
• mirror
• political caricatures and satires
• bauble
• crowning the victor with laurel
• Death as skeleton
• military clothing and other equipment (uniforms, cap, armour, helmet, etc.)
• index finger forwards, pointing, indicating
• the virgin and Dominican Tertiary, Catherine of Siena; possible attributes: book, cross, crown of thorns, crucifix, demon under foot, heart (with cross), lily, plague-stricken, ring, rosary, stigmata
• book

Who

• Johann Caspar Lavater

Acquisition

purchase 1905

Copyright

Public domain